Egypt offers food, tents to military, displaced people

Cameroon’s war effort against the terrorist sect, Boko Haram, has received yet another booster with a donation of 584 25-kg sacks of rice, 1,613 50-kg sacks of wheat flour and 240 tents from the Arab Republic of Egypt.

Receiving the donation on October 2, 2015 at the 101 Airforce Base in Yaounde, the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation, René Emmanuel Sadi, who is also Chair of the Inter-ministerial Adhoc Committee entrusted with the management of donations to Defence Forces and populations affected by the fight against Boko Haram, expressed gratitude and appreciation on behalf of government.

“We appreciate the donation of tents especially during this period when floods are causing displacement of populations. The tents will be very useful,” René Emmanuel Sadi said, adding that the seven-container consignment donated was the first gesture by an African country since the start of the donation exercise.

“This gesture is a kind of appreciation to Cameroon and His Excellency Paul Biya for his strategy to fight terrorism and for efforts to cater for huge numbers of refugees and displaced people,” explained the Egyptian Ambassador to Cameroon, H.E. Sherif Salah Eldin Elleithy, while handing over the items.

He confirmed his country’s willingness to give “any assistance needed by the Cameroonian government” given that Egypt understands what war against terrorism means.

The Arab Republic of Egypt was the first African and Arab country to establish diplomatic relations with Cameroon after the latter’s independence in 1960.